Triple

T14411292
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The General’s Cook E357332 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hercules Posey
Hercules Posey was an enslaved chef owned by George Washington, renowned for his culinary skill and his dramatic escape to freedom in 1797.
E1098179 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Hercules Posey | Statement: [The General’s Cook, mainCharacter, Hercules Posey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hercules Posey
Context triple: [The General’s Cook, mainCharacter, Hercules Posey]
  • A. Hercules Robinson
    Hercules Robinson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served in several key governorships across the British Empire, including in southern Africa and Australasia.
  • B. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • C. Gridley Bryant
    Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
  • D. Volney Rogers
    Volney Rogers was an American lawyer and conservationist best known for creating and championing Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, Ohio, one of the earliest metropolitan park districts in the United States.
  • E. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Hercules Posey
Triple: [The General’s Cook, mainCharacter, Hercules Posey]
Generated description
Hercules Posey was an enslaved chef owned by George Washington, renowned for his culinary skill and his dramatic escape to freedom in 1797.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hercules Posey
Target entity description: Hercules Posey was an enslaved chef owned by George Washington, renowned for his culinary skill and his dramatic escape to freedom in 1797.
  • A. Hercules Robinson
    Hercules Robinson was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served in several key governorships across the British Empire, including in southern Africa and Australasia.
  • B. Mahlon Sweet
    Mahlon Sweet was a prominent local aviation advocate and civic leader in Eugene, Oregon, whose efforts were instrumental in establishing the city’s municipal airport.
  • C. Gridley Bryant
    Gridley Bryant was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known for pioneering early railroad engineering and construction techniques in the United States.
  • D. Volney Rogers
    Volney Rogers was an American lawyer and conservationist best known for creating and championing Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, Ohio, one of the earliest metropolitan park districts in the United States.
  • E. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d82793421c8190861eb0e673b085de completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de90c9b3448190aec1608836a5e913 completed April 14, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd55269d8c81909592277741a93db6 completed May 8, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd58216a8c8190b1fffcb670f15e16 completed May 8, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd589144b8819099aadef126b8728f completed May 8, 2026, 3:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:17 a.m.